Quotes of: Decadent Keyword

Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in their excess ...

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice...

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love with which so many stories end – the love of fidelity, kindness and fertility – but the other side of love, its cruelty, ster...

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the world. ... the decadent aestheticized decay and took pleasure in perversity. In decad...

Asti Hustvedt

By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

Bleeding for a decade For a decade, We bleed like there is no hell but the earth We bleed like we were born to dare We bleed like there is nothing alive inside. We find a clue After a decade Bleeding is just to breath Simply keeps us alive.

Arzum Uzun

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

Charles Durning

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

Francesca Annis

Even light takes a decade to travel ten light-years.

Traditional

Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extravagant, the extreme, the grotesque, the bizarre, then one's diet should reflect the fact. Life, meals, everything must be as arti...

The Decadent Cookbook

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

Patti LaBelle

would you like to dance in the rain?

The Degenerate Tales of Decadent Minds

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

Mahmoud Abbas

There is a shadow wherever there is light, but the mind can see what the eyes can't.

The Degenerate Tales of Decadent Minds

Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy.

Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

Fashion is constantly changing from decade to decade, but I don't see a change in how many black faces I see on the runway, and it's something we should talk about because it's a problem.

Jessica White

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.

David LaChapelle

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson